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All Eyes On Gopher Hockey This Weekend

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – What begins Friday night is one of the most important seasons in Gopher hockey.

The question remains: Will the Gophers failing to make the NCAA tournament become a trend?

The current theories in the hockey community focus on Don Lucia and the NHL draft taking too many players too soon.

But the Gophers will find out a lot over the weekend, when they play Duluth, the defending national champions. The Gophers know this is judgment season and that the judging starts with how they look Friday.